Doctoral Student

My work is focused on marine community ecology and conservation. In particular, I am interested in
how adaptive phenotypic plasticity, especially inducible defenses, affects species interactions and
community structure in marine environments. I have conducted most of my graduate research at the
Friday Harbor Laboratories in the San Juan Islands. Currently, I am involved in a collaborative project
investigating the chemical and morphological responses of the rocky intertidal alga, Fucus gardneri, to
herbivore cues. Prior to graduate school I did research in fish disease ecology at the USGS Western
Fisheries Research Center.